Saturday, March 08, 2008

Calvin College is hosting WOTD, and they have offered the website a permanent home - here.

This supersedes the original CFP; I'm moving my blog entry to refer to it.

Even if you can't make it, here are some ways you can help WOTD:

1) Blog about it; link to the CFP. (Perhaps for background, some of the old stuff on Creative Chaos? )

2) Don't have a blog? Send out the link to any email discussion lists or user's groups you belong to.

3) Don't belong to any groups? Send it to your friends and colleagues who are interested in doing software development better. Two groups I am especially interested in seeing represented: Customers and Product Owners.

4) Don't have any friends?

Man, that stinks. No really, that stinks.

How can you meet new people? I know this great peer conference in August ...

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

I have just accepted a full-time employee position with SocialText, the Palo-Alto, California based maker of enterprise wiki software.

I will continue to work out of my West Michigan Office, with occasional business trips. So far, I have seen lots of collaboration. It is a kind of intense collaboration via instant message, webcam, and voice-over-ip phones that puts many physically co-located offices to shame.

The Workshop on Technical Debt is moving forward, and I will be at STPCon in April. Sadly, my public involvement in other projects may decrease a bit going forward, but I will keep in touch.